Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending April 5: Barts builds digital hospital in one week, $200m for US telehealth, wearables time has come in EU, privacy relaxed for COVID-19, vulnerabilities in Zoom VC, digital passport for credentials, NHS fast-tracks digital tool for GPs, virtual meds reconciliation
Barts extends Cerner EPR to NHS Nightingale hospital
Digital Health News ~ Owen Hughes ~ 31/03/2020
Remarkably, the huge IT project has been achieved in less than a week, with the Barts Health team led by CIO Sarah Jensen.
FCC proposes $200M telehealth program to tackle Covid-19
MedCity News ~ Elise Reuter ~ 31/03/2020
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai rolled out plans for a $200 million fund to help healthcare providers purchase telehealth tools to handle Covid-19.
